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Below is just one example of the literal staggering realized potential of semi technology that already has grown at a staggering rate and will continue to do so. Illumina's use of mems and semi technology has literally world changing implications for everything in society world wide. The prospect of vastly increased life span and increase in quality alone are going to have quantum changes in not only our economic structure, but our political and moral structure. TSM has expanded into solar and lighting and will without a doubt have the potential to make drastic changes that will have huge reprocussions by changing the politcal and financial power of utilities by allowing the abandonment of the grid when combined with changes in battery technology allowed by semi technology again like AMAT is doing by using semi technology to change the battery and power storage world (also solar by Semprius). The world of semi technology is getting broader and deeper at an accellerating rate that is going to require literally revolutionary changes in how we educate and train ourselves. The SemiWiki community and ecosystem should play a key part in this. I hope this is a start of an active forum, for the explosion in size and scope of the semi world although it seems huge now, has just begun. Comments and additions are not only desired, but needed to help us guide this explosion in the best possible ways for all. Knowledge can be a double edged sword for good and evil. Flatley's Law: How One Company Is Creating Medicine's Genetic Revolution - Forbes
tty2, it is literally an explosion by the definition of the word, a sudden bursting forth and like an explosion it can do good things or bad things if not handled properly. Right now it's a very uncontrolled explosion that because of the lack of IP management and an eductional method to match is causing devestating dislocation around the globe and gross inefficiencies. At most we are arguing over very fine points or gradients of symantics. In Webster they even used the explosion of suburbia as an example.
I agree with your post Art. As a result of IoT (for the lack of a better acronym) I believe we will see a wave of semiconductor innovation not seen since the emergence of the fabless business model. Semiconductor IP will certainly play a role in this literal explosion as well as other design enablement technologies. EDA may finally go cloud for example driven by educational and research facilities:
Semiconductor Research Corporation and Silicon Cloud International Team to Globally Advance Integrated Circuit Design Education and Research RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. & SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and Silicon Cloud International (SCI) are launching a new program aimed at globally advancing integrated circuit (IC) design education and research.
The program will focus on increasing the quantity of IC designers in university systems worldwide. SRC is the world’s leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, and SCI is the premier provider of secure and private cloud-based computing infrastructure and workflows.
I do research on a much broader range of technologies than most of the SemiWiki community and think we will see many of the technologies developed for the semi industry go into creating new versions of existing materials on a large piece scale like when AMAT creates panels the size of a double car garage door for display screens. I think we could see a whole new range of materials used for filters, structural materials, catalysts and numerous other functions. Doping, layering and micro structuring of existing materials will be just three of the technological extensions we will see move out of the semi industry. To really make this happen education and trainning must be accellerated to keep up with all the specialties coming from the massive expansion of the knowledge base. As I come across these examples of what has already made the transition again I will post them here.
No, it's not. In absence of context, like in the title of a post one needs to default to the primary meaning of the word which is: "a violent and destructive shattering or blowing apart of something, as is caused by a bomb." Your use of the term 'literally', and your justification for doing so are incorrect.
I was hoping to read about a newly discovered artifact of modern semiconductors similar to the spontaneous combustion of Li-ion batteries.
tty2, it is literally an explosion by the definition of the word, a sudden bursting forth and like an explosion it can do good things or bad things if not handled properly. Right now it's a very uncontrolled explosion that because of the lack of IP management and an eductional method to match is causing devestating dislocation around the globe and gross inefficiencies. At most we are arguing over very fine points or gradients of symantics. In Webster they even used the explosion of suburbia as an example.
